The dissertation thesis focuses on the ethical discourse of Epicurean philosophy. Through Epicurean relation to the world, sensations, physical and mental well-being and instructions how to achieve them, it tries to display the practical nature and relevancy of Epicurean thought. It summarizes the basic concepts of Epicurean beliefs, which serve as a base for spiritual exercises which Epicur encouraged and practiced within his circle of friends. It also touches the subject of physical exercise and tries to place them within borders of Epicurean teaching. In doing so, it relies upon sources from antiquity, mostly Letter to Menoeceus and Leading Doctrines, conveyed by Diogenes Laertius, and on Cicero’s testimonies about Epicurean thought in his work On the Ends of Good and Evil.
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